Category: DIY Projects

  • How to Make Magic Mix for Homemade “Cream of” Soups, Puddings, Sauces, and More!

    How to Make Magic Mix for Homemade “Cream of” Soups, Puddings, Sauces, and More!

    If you don’t yet know how to make magic mix, then you’re in for a real treat. My wife and I decided that we’d really like to make an effort to make more of our own foods from scratch which reminded me of this Magic Mix video that I saw a while back. Apparently, it’s…

  • How to Purify Water With “More Concentrated” Bleach

    How to Purify Water With “More Concentrated” Bleach

    If you want to know how to purify water with the “new” bleach, you’ve come to the right place…. I was at Walmart the other day and remembered that I needed a new bottle of bleach and apparently it’s been a while because every bottle I looked at said “More Concentrated” on the label. I mean EVERY…

  • How to Make a Bucket Survival Kit, 34+ Items to Add to Your “Bucket List”

    How to Make a Bucket Survival Kit, 34+ Items to Add to Your “Bucket List”

    As I’ve been having fun at making water bottle survival kits recently I figured it only made sense to try a five-gallon bucket survival kit. After all, I LOVE buckets and think one can never have enough of them. 🙂 As you can see I was able to shove it all in there but to…

  • How to Make 3000+ Calorie DIY Survival Food Ration Bars (per batch)

    How to Make 3000+ Calorie DIY Survival Food Ration Bars (per batch)

    Have you ever had those Datrex or Mainstay Emergency food ration bars? If so, you may have realized that they aren’t the best of survival rations for taste but they will keep you alive. Nuff said. And hard tack? Yikes! You may as well be eating a brick. 😉 Well, I came across this article a while…

  • How to Make an Improved Water Bottle Survival Kit

    How to Make an Improved Water Bottle Survival Kit

    I had fun making the water bottle survival kit a few weeks back and I thought I would try one more time. This time I choose to use an old Sawyer Water Filter bottle (here’s a link to the newer version) such as this one 0n the left (as compared to the 16-ounce bottle from…

  • How to Make an Uber Match Even Better!

    How to Make an Uber Match Even Better!

    Note: This post was written by me and originally featured more or less as shown below at SurvivalLife.com. If you’ve yet to see how to make an “Uber” match, you’re in for a treat. To see the original article on how to create one, click here. If you want a self-contained fire-starter that you can…

  • How to Make a Water Bottle Survival Kit

    How to Make a Water Bottle Survival Kit

    I thought I would see how many useful survival items I could stuff into a small water bottle like this one (it’s 16-ounce, hard-sided): At 16-ounces it’s not a very big water bottle and that was a part of the challenge! Of course, you could choose a larger water bottle if you prefer and it…

  • 3 Easy Ways to EDC Duct Tape!

    3 Easy Ways to EDC Duct Tape!

    Duct tape is wonderful stuff. It’s so useful, in fact, that you should have some on you at all times and include it in your EDC. After all, if it was good enough for MacGyver, it’s good enough for me. Here’s my 3 most favorite ways to carry it… 1. Wrapped around a credit card…

  • DIY Ranger Pace Beads With a “Manly” Twist: Make it Mondays

    DIY Ranger Pace Beads With a “Manly” Twist: Make it Mondays

    I was bored the other day and decided to make my own Ranger-style pace counting beads for hiking and bug out. But, rather than using the traditionally accepted method of paracord and “girly” beads I figured I would “man it up” a bit and use paracord and machined nuts, you know, the kind that are…